Playhouse
Jersey Boys
★★★☆☆ Nostalgic
The twentieth-anniversary of Jersey Boys hits the Edinburgh Playhouse stage with pizzazz and plenty of nostalgia for fans of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons in this jukebox musical tracing the rise, fall, and reinvention of the legendary group.
The Archers: Live at 75
★★★★☆ Charming
The Archers: Live at 75, at the Playhouse for one night as part of an ongoing tour, is a fitting tribute to the ‘everyday story of country folk’. The BBC’s farming soap has run since 1 January 1951 (long before its current home of Radio 4 even existed) and clocked up over 20 000 episodes.
Legally Blonde
★★★★☆ Courtroom Diva
Amber Davies shimmies her way into Harvard Law School as Elle Woods in Legally Blonde, which drops into the Playhouse this week on an impressively high octane and entertaining national tour.
Annie
★★★★☆ A belter
Little orphan Annie comes out belting in a most commanding fashion in Crossroads Live’s touring production of Annie, which is showing off its positivity at the Playhouse through to a Sunday matinee.
High Society
★★★☆☆ Slow burner
High Society, the Cole Porter jukebox musical based on the Philadelphia Story, flew into the Edinburgh Playhouse on Tuesday night with almost everything swellegant and elegant, even though its two big stars were not on board.
2:22 A Ghost Story
★★★★☆ Chilling
The Playhouse’s resident theatre spectres take a back seat as the UK tour of 2:22 A Ghost Story grabs the spotlight for the week until Saturday.
The Bodyguard
★★★☆☆ Power packed
The Bodyguard, the power ballad-packed musical based on the smash hit film and flaunting its Whitney Houston hits, launches into the Playhouse this week with, quite literally, a bang.
Waitress
★★★★☆ Big-hearted
The musical Waitress, touring to the Playhouse, is an appealing production that (despite its ostensibly dark subject matter) is resolutely optimistic.
Sunny Afternoon
★★★☆☆ Nostalgic
Sunny Afternoon, the musical about the Kinks and featuring their songs, is a crowd-pleasing affair with high musical standards.
Matilda the Musical
★★★★☆ Huge energy
The return to the Playhouse of the unstoppable juggernaut that is the RSC’s Matilda the Musical after seven years, is certainly a cause for celebration.
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